Should host/domain names travel over the internet with a trailing dot?

[jra at baylink.com (Jay Ashworth)]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Reichert" <reichert at numachi.com>

> > > More formally: "is a host/domain name with a trailing dot
> > > *actually a legal host name?
> >
> > No. See RFC 952
> 
> In the case of URIs, RFC 2396 (circa 1998) seems to allow for it,
> if I read the ABNF for 'hostname' right in section 3.2.2.
> 
> But that's the only place I see it.

Concur, unhappily.  And at this point, we are *definitely* out-of-scope
for NANOG.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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